This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

So let me get this straight. A developer who can't afford to build a hotel and says it won't be successful in the current environment wants taxpayers to foot some of the bill. Developers of the billion dollar Wilshire Grand project want the City to provide financial assistance for construction and our fools Downtown are actually considering the idea. If the developers don't get the money their options "include shutting down the hotel and waiting for favorable financial market conditions, selling the structure or settling on development alternatives that would not include a hotel." Welcome to capitalism folks.

LA's true rail line to nowhere - the Metro Green Line - turns 15. CurbedLA in an effort to add some cultural hipness to an otherwise ho-hum story calls the Norwalk to Redondo Beach rail line the "Stephen Baldwin" of the Metro system. Must be true. The Green Line is the only rail line in LA that didn't have a label here on the blog.

It would be good to see these people kicked out on their asses as resoundingly as that piece of shit Jack Weiss. The only question is whether the replacements will be as effective and true to their word as Carmen Trutanich has been.

The bleating, whining sore-loser who blogs here when his mommy lets him use her pc, is gutted by the way the democrat hero was ousted, but worse, Trutanich has pissed off almost every CM in City Hall because he won't tow the line and join the Spring Street Gang.

Of course, Weiss pissed off a lot more people who not only are entitled to vote, but actually do vote. It's not quite the same with Cardinass and Huizzar - they're just career politicians.

Wow! Name-calling! Never saw that coming. It's always nice to know the opposition has such keen analytic skills and a mastery of the facts.

If Cardenas is a shoo-in, how interesting that his campaign finance statements show he has to travel to Seattle, Washington and Austin, Texas to try to raise funds. Or is it racist to point that out, too?

Walter should not talk about raising money out of state. All of his money came from minuteman and hate groups in Arizona, Texas, Arkansas and other cracker states. Don't talk Walter it's public record you right wing racist!

Joe, are you gonna speak out against Clean Sweep regardless of whether they have good candidates? Are you really gonna let your problems with Walter ruin a great idea just because he's a part of it? You obviously have a stick up your ass about illegal immigration, but why stop an important movement when all you do is complain about our elected officials?

OMG the Council staffers are hard at posting. I find it interesting when I have been in a dialogue abou the Arizona immigration issue and when they find out I'm a Latino I get called a racist. The people posting here stating Walter is a racist because of his stand on immigration shows they're ilerate, uneducated, fools posting on here. Those people I've spoken to are the more racist, discriminatory.

Walter complains about those who call him names, yet he calls anyone who criticizes him a "staffer" in an attempt to imply that the only people who could possibly disagree with him would be City Hall staff.

That's not logical Walter. I would think you would have learned that in law school.

Hate to say it, but Ron feels the same way about Walter as you do (Walter hater). Same with Nina. But they feature him as speaker and are embracing him. I'm not saying Ron is a racist. But he doesn't mind having someone who he considers to be one on board. Yes, Ron Kaye and Nina R both told me they hate Walter cause they think he's a racist. Yet they let him be guest speaker at their kick off event?